Articles & Research

The Importance of Investing in Ourselves: Reflections from the IDEA pilot

May 21, 2025

Which Mecklenburg County neighborhoods have grown the most?

May 14, 2025

Deep Roots Community Planning Workshop Final Presentation: A Celebration of community-engaged design

May 14, 2025

Charlotte Urban Institute celebrates Spring 2025 grads

May 14, 2025

A heart to serve: A personal reflection on life and influence

May 14, 2025

2025 Schul Forum Community Data Day

April 17, 2025

Hi. I’m an Urbanist

April 16, 2025

Benefits Cliff Pilot Program Evaluation finds CLIFF Tools valuable for employees and job seekers

March 13, 2025

Publications and Reports

Changing priorities: How the neighborhood choices of out-of-town movers impacts locals

December 15, 2023

Alternatives to Violence Program offers promise, lessons for preventing gun violence

May 17, 2023

Three takeaways from new report on homelessness and incarceration in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

May 4, 2023

Report: 2022 Matthews Housing Needs Assessment

February 28, 2023

Connecting for Stability: Understanding The Relatives and the Young People They Serve

February 22, 2023

Survey sheds light on the future of Charlotte’s creative community

August 10, 2022

Corporate landlords include exclusionary language in rental housing listings

July 7, 2022

Examining housing needs at Brookhill Village in the event of redevelopment

February 10, 2022

Past work/archives

Galleries

Charlotte City Walks 2022

May 31, 2022

The 2019 Schul Forum

September 29, 2021

Charlotte’s library through the decades

November 25, 2019

Letting rivers run wild again in Badin and Great Falls

October 16, 2019

The Sandhills AGInnovation Center promotes farming

October 3, 2019

Innovative agriculture connects farmers to urban centers

October 3, 2019

Knitting together a region with the Carolina Thread Trail

October 1, 2019

Transforming the South Fork of the Catawba River and its towns

September 30, 2019

Maps

The Quality of Life Explorer: Big Value for Local Government

April 20, 2023

Quality of Life Explorer Timeline

April 20, 2023

The Quality of Life Explorer: 10 years and Counting

April 5, 2023

Quality of Life Explorer: Making data intelligible and available for journalists (like me!) who aren’t PhDs

April 5, 2023

Explore new data about Charlotte via interactive maps

August 22, 2022

Who you befriend affects your economic mobility

August 1, 2022

Mapping unequal health care access in Charlotte

April 18, 2022

Explore local housing data with new interactive maps

April 4, 2022